Intel Z77 Panther Point Chipset and Motherboard Preview – ASRock, ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI, ECS and Biostar

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• t4murphy - Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - link

  That was a good cpu for me before I went to the 920. I still ran MS FS9 with good results along with my GTX 8800. Im not laughing:)

• rocknrob - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - link

  I had a 920 X58 setup and decided to rebuild to an i7 2700K Z68. So far I've regretted the whole thing. I'm going to pick up one of these ASUS Z77 Deluxe boards but I don't think it's going to make a big difference.
  
  The X58's/i7's were rock solid and performance monsters. I honestly see very little in terms of performance gains. Supposedly Ive Bridge processors are only going to give you about 15% to 20% increase in performance. If that's the case I think I'm going to stick with the 2700K until the next architecture change.

• 457R4LDR34DKN07 - Sunday, April 8, 2012 - link

  you need to get a asus P8Z77-I DELUXE review.

• Mitxplease - Sunday, April 8, 2012 - link

  Hells yes.

• GreenEnergy - Sunday, April 8, 2012 - link

  I only found one (tiny) review sofar:
  
  http://vr-zone.com/articles/first-look-asus-p8z77-...

• 457R4LDR34DKN07 - Wednesday, April 11, 2012 - link

  I actually would like a comparison with ZOTAC Z77-ITX WiFi, as I'm leaning toward the zotac mobo due to the msata compatibility by removing the wifi/bt module.

• ViperV990 - Sunday, April 8, 2012 - link

  Does the Virtu MVP stuff work with an Eyefinity or NV Surround setup?

• martinw89 - Sunday, April 8, 2012 - link

  I'm very curious about this too. On page two, Ian says "Within the hybrid system, the integrated GPU takes over two of the tasks for the GPU – snooping for required frames, and display output. This requires a system to run in i-Mode, where the display is connected to the integrated GPU."
  
  But on page 3, Lucid's own slide makes it sound like these new features are monitor configuration independent: http://images.anandtech.com/doci/5728/Lucid1.png
  
  This is a super interesting feature, and I hope it performs as well in reality as it sounds like on paper. And with a triple screen setup it would be bliss.

• jimnicoloff - Sunday, April 8, 2012 - link

  I have a three monitor setup working just fine on a Z68 board with all monitors attached to a 6970. Virtu gives the option of which you want to be primary - the video card or the integrated graphics. So for me (with the video card primary) this works kind of backwards from a power saving point, but good for performance since it still allows for quick sync video transcoding, etc.
  
  I know this doesn't adress the new Virtu MVP, but I can't see them taking a step backwards when something similar works on the old version. Especially since if you are running in eyefinity mode it is just seen by the system as one big wide monitor and not three separate screens that each get their own render. Hopefully they can pull it off because I like my three screen setup and would hate to lose features because of that.

• Zoomer - Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - link

  I'm leading no:
  
  "This requires a system to run in <b>i-Mode, where the display is connected to the integrated GPU.</b>"